Welcome to Rice Speir Radio. Rice Speir is a firm of lawyers in Auckland, New Zealand with a particular passion for all things local government. Your host is Nathan Speir, a Partner and leader of the firm’s regulatory team.

Rice Speir has an amazing network of council people and we thought it would be a great idea to bring people together to discuss and debate interesting issues facing local government in this country. Episode 1 was recorded on day 1 of New Zealand’s official lockdown for Covid 19 and that’s really what prompted the Podcast. What better time to start!

The plan for the show is to invite interesting people in to discuss hot topics facing our council community. There will be a range of people, backgrounds, and areas of expertise – everything from building, RMA, executive leadership, communications and a few surprises too.

It will be fun and the interviews won’t be all work related. You can expect to hear about people’s passions outside of work too – from undercover musicians to diehard warriors fans, we want to hear about what puts smiles on our clients’ faces.